Authority and Control in Modern Industry: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Business Organization and Networks, 10.)

This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation. Including contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan, it considers such relations, and the possible advantages of family ownership. The book combines historical and contemporary case studies from a range of different industries. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures......Page 10 List of tables......Page 11 List of contributors......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 13 Introduction......Page 14 The rise of the factory system in Britain: efficiency or exploitation?......Page 30 The coevolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system......Page 58 Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises......Page 86 Knowledge, information and organisational structures......Page 133 Technological change, transaction costs, and the industrial organisation of cotton production in the US South, 1950_1970......Page 153 The maintenance of professional authority: the case of physicians and hospitals in the United States......Page 168 Men and monotony: fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company......Page 186 Management and labour in German chemical companies before World War One......Page 216 Buddenbrooks revisited: the firm and the entrepreneurial family in Germany during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries......Page 234 Index......Page 253 Industrial Economics Book Cover 1 Title 4 Contents 5 List of figures 10 List of tables 11 List of contributors 12 Acknowledgements 13 Introduction 14 The rise of the factory system in Britain: efficiency or exploitation? 30 The coevolution of technology and organisation in the transition to the factory system 58 Class structures and the firm: the interplay of workplace and industrial relations in large capitalist enterprises 86 Knowledge, information and organisational structures 133 Technological change, transaction costs, and the industrial organisation of cotton production in the US South, 1950_1970 153 The maintenance of professional authority: the case of physicians and hospitals in the United States 168 Men and monotony: fraternalism as a managerial strategy at the Ford Motor Company 186 Management and labour in German chemical companies before World War One 216 Buddenbrooks revisited: the firm and the entrepreneurial family in Germany during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 234 Index 253 This book takes a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches to the issue of organization and authority in the modern corporation and includes contributions from scholars in the US, Germany and Japan One of the most striking developments to have occurred during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain was the rise of the factory system.